I like to Quirky Move It, Move It!

It is my turn to set the challenge at Quirky Crafts, and I have been so busy with family here over the bank holiday then Bethany here for a week, and yesterday I had a stall at the Bradford on Avon Fringe Festival kick off day, then we took Beth back to South Wales, and went out to eat there before heading home exhausted again!

So by the time I did all I had to do to set up the challenge post I didn't get started on my card until this afternoon.

I decided I wanted to do a pop up card so I went to SCS to find a tutorial and I used the one I found to create the mechanism. I only watched the video once so I hope I got this right. I tried to hide the feet of the mechanism, on show in the original, by cutting slits in the paper but I got that a little wrong so had to cut more. Maybe I will get it right next time.

The front of the card has a cake and sentiment from Birthday Fun from our wonderful sponsor The Cutting Cafe, I cut out a second cake to layer on the first to give a 3d appearance, and I was going to add a few more layers but decided that would make the card too chunky. I coloured the cake with Promarkers and added holographic glitter glue to the icing, and grounded the cake with a blue table.

Inside the card I used two monsters and a circular sentiment from A Bunch of Monsters from The Cutting Cafe, but added party hats and balloons from Birthday fun, and made the background papers from Birthday fun too. You get so many images and sentiments in these sets and they both have loads, so are great value for money especially if you look out for cyber Monday deals where you get loads of sets for a bargain price!

 This isn't the greatest photo, or maybe I didn't get it quite right this time, I will check and maybe try again.

I hope someone will love this card, it is so cute even if not totally right yet! I had fun making it!

So hop on over to Quirky Crafts to see some more wonderful ideas for projects with moving parts, and to join in and maybe win some of these wonderful file sets from our sponsor.

I have entered the following challenges:

ABC Challenges - U for Unlimited (Sundays)

Pollycraft - for the kids (alternate Wednesdays)

Lyn said Quirky Well Fold It!

In case you haven't guessed - it is Quirky Crafts challenge time again! Lyn has set the challenge as "Fold it", make something with more than one fold, anything will do it doesn't have to be a card. 

We are generously sponsored by The Cutting Cafe who are giving all three prizes, and provided the team with two sets of printable files to use. I have used some of the many bicycles and sentiments from Lets Go for a Ride. 

I decided to make a side step card, and had to go find the instructions on Split Coast Stampers  (where there are at least a couple more tutorials I want to try). This card was so much easier than before because I used the Scor Buddy, which is the smaller size of Scor Pal board, and the instructions were written using one of these in inches and I didn't have to try and convert it to metric. I bought the Scor Pal and got the Scor Buddy free in a great offer last year, so my Scor Pal is metric and the buddy is imperial to provide the option of using either as required.

The ribbon tag, bicycle sentiment and some of the panels of paper are cut using Spellbinders dies. The spotty ribbon is from Crafty Ribbons. The final touch was to add a pearl heart to each wheel of the largest bicycle although it looked just as nice without. Saddles, handlebars and hearts are coloured with Promarkers.

Top down view showing the back of the folds decorated with the star paper, papers are by DCWV. I just need to add a panel of white to write on the back and this is done.